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Conservatives when something harmless is popular: "This needs to be criminalised".

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This just in: adults don’t get kids’ memes. More news at 11.

I think it’s all fascinating, how adults flip out over kids’ trends every generation, without fail, without ever recalling that they followed silly fads/memes when they were kids, too. Like the “cool S” from the 90s.

I remember adults coming up with all sorts of absurd ideas, straining to connect it to something meaningful, failing to acknowledge that… it’s just a fun thing to draw. And if it’s fun, that’s all kids need. It didn’t mean we were in a cult, or that it’s a gang symbol, or any other ridiculous narrative. Some teachers got so annoyed or suspicious as to ban it from their classrooms, too.

I’m not bothered by 6-7. I’m not excited by it like kids are, but I get that it’s fun for them in a way that it isn’t for adults. One of the kids I work with said it the other day. I just laughed and told him, “Congrats on learning your first meme.”

If it wasn’t 6-7, it would’ve been something else. There’s no point in fighting it - just as other fads and memes have come and gone, this too will fade someday. Possibly to be replaced with something more obnoxious. We’ll have to wait and see.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Do I find it annoying? No, but if I interacted with children much I probably would. Kids are annoying, but stuff like this is culturally valuable because it's them practicing growing and changing culture. Things that annoy the old people like us are also part of how teenagers get us to leave them alone so they can grow up in peace. From there younger and younger kids copy older kids because that's how kids work. Then eventually the parents and teachers that understand kids will get in on it poorly when they're well and truly sick of it.

Hell, every once in a while the kids get into something good, though it's usually music or books.

[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 111 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like it slightly more now.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have autistic kindergarteners that picked it up and it's become one of their favorite scripts. Kind of annoying but I didn't really care that much. Knowing it annoys this little freak though? Gotta say I'm warming up to it.

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[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I feel like 6-7 is just another version of the made you look hand gesture.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The kids still do this too

We still play this at work.

There it is! I was just saying we had something like this back in the day.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Being mad at something kids do is the saddest thing ever. Let them yell their numbers and move on to the next thing.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Genuinely have no idea what 67 means and if I wait a year until they tire of it then I won't have to learn.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 day ago

It dosen't mean anything. Asking what that mean if what reveal that you're not in the know.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it started as a sports thing. But you're right. It's gonna burn itself out quickly.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's a meme of a meme of a meme. Some guy was making YouTube shorts about a rap song about a basketball player that plays like he's 6'7" even though he's 6'2".

The kids do it just because of the short and it being goofy shit with the hand movements and funny looking characters. The YouTuber was memeing because the song was about one of the Ball brothers.

It literally means nothing. Just kids being silly.

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[–] Neo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is no one going to point out that he's clearly joking?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Poe's law literally doesn't exist in an administration calling fonts woke. Fuck "couch fucker" JD, he isn't allowed to joke.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 71 points 2 days ago
[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And 6x7 is 42, so now every generation can be happy.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Makes even more sense when you consider how they say it as "six seven" not "sixty seven" so it would imply notational (6)(7).

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

This is my response as well.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To day I learned that 6 7 is the police code for non-consensual sex with a couch.

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[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nobody has to take shit from a furniture fucker with a orange mustache stain.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, man. That looks really soft.

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

And dry. And coarse. And very humiliating.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Imagine the smell.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His wife already did, along with a lot of other stuff.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Well we are woke Arabic numbers.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

But how will we know his IQ now?

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago

When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.

Like that one where Marilyn manson removed some ribs so he could fuck his couch better.

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

Funny. I'm from the seventies and when we were daydreaming back then about the year 2025.... we saw people flying around in transparent bubbles, living in full harmony in futuristic scifi buildings... Who could have thought we would be thrown back in time almost perfectly similar to the nazi regime of the Germans and dangerous idiots like that Orange Satan and its dog Fence being "chosen" as the most important people of a country... It's devolution.

I vote for recolonisation. This one has failed.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

There are exactly 67 seperate Epstein files still to be released

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Why do we care what the vice president thinks? Shouldn't he be meeting with a ladies book club or attending a donor's funeral somewhere? Is he just spouting crap and waiting and hoping for someone's death?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Party of personal freedom and free speech y'all

I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.

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[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Streisand effect, fucking idiot ruined any chances of it going away now..

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

If it isn't a couch he probably wants to ban it.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So Americans should now count 65, 66, 68, 69? At least this is in line with measuring things with non-metric units.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

"Oh no, a number, that's threatening the greatness of the US and we must act immediately!"

  • Some couch fucker, probably

He's just mad his kids don't say it to him

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

It's the best meme I've ever heard now. Watch me put it 6 7 times in every comment.

... Wait no. I can't if you're watching.

[–] seriousslayerguy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am speechless, how can it all be so absurd. How do they come up with even more stupid ideas than before every single day.

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This might be the only time I will enjoy hearing 67..

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s cause he doesn’t get it. It confuses him.

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